Quotes about Creativity
I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically
— Isabel Allende
I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.
— Isabel Allende
You explained to me that inspiration is born of stillness, and creativity comes from movement.
— Isabel Allende
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
— Isabel Allende
You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
— Booker T. Washington
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
— John Milton
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Oscar Wilde
Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
— Michelangelo
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The true object of human life is play.
— GK Chesterton